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The Reith lectures 2001 are presented by Tom Kirkwood, Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Gerontology at the University of Newcastle. This year’s lectures deal with growing old. Dramatic...
A 2-DVD compilation of films made at and for the Empire Exhibition of 1938, which was held in Glasgow. DVD 1: Seven films made under the direction of John Grierson to spotlight Scotland: FACE OF SCOTLAND:...
A "sweet spot" is that unique place on a bat or racquet where you can hit a ball without jarring yourself. It’s also the perfect tuning point of a musical instrument, the point of balance in a circus act,...
A series of five 15-minute Radio 4 programmes each recorded on location at a unique or definitive collection of some sort (eg teeth, plants, ice, recordings of English dialects). With the help of the...
The series of 5 Millennium Reith Lectures deal with one of the most pressing issues of our time - sustainable development. They are delivered by five different thinkers, each eminent in a different field. At...
A series of 15-minute programmes exploring how our ideas about the end of the universe have been shaped by religion, belief, and the contemporary state of scientific thinking and observation. Presented by...
A series of 15-minute programmes in which Simon Singh investigates the history of some of the most special numbers in mathematics - 4, 7, the largest prime, Kepler’s conjecture, and game theory
In new series about Five Shapes, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy finds his favourite forms in some highly unlikely places. He visits a spherical building in Paris, hears music inspired by the symmetries of...
This year’s Reith lecturer is the neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego). The five lectures study neurological...
A six part series in which Jonathan Miller examines the development of the nation’s health since the end of the Second World War. Since the war the nation’s health has improved dramatically but the...
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